Design for Literature

Last updated
1 Aug 2018

What is Design For Literature?

We are working towards an open-source, collaborative platform (a reference implementation) for creating, editing/annotating,
and publishing eWorks. We want to provide the education community an unsurpassed learning experience.
Our initial focus is on literary works: submitting them, annotating them in both static and dynamic ways,
and browsing them in a deep way. We use state-of-the-art technology in AI and UIX to create a deep and
pleasurable learning and publishing/editing experience.

Collaborators and Contributors

Volunteer Contributor Program: Volunteers with sufficient skills in at least one key area will work with us
remotely and communicate via Zoom or Skype. We will mentor you on other skills that you might need to
do your job. We are looking for contributors with the following skills:

Web platform development: Experienced Javascript programmers. You'll work on a project of your choice
(e.g., search, user interface, web server) and we'll mentor you in the area you select as needed.

Data analysis: Data wranglers and scientists. Wranglers should be familiar
with R, AWS/EMR with Spark and either Scala or Python.

Experienced philologists in any language group (especially Indo-european). You will
help refine our feature and user interface usability requirements by creating and curating texts of your choice.

Literary critics and journalists who would like to explore new possibilities in editing and commenting on literary texts.